Flowers Where Your Face Should Be chords by The Wonder Years

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: D

Difficulty: Novice

I like to play the G, C#m, Bm, and A a bit differently. Can be played many ways.

Chords:
G - 3x023x
C#m - x40230
Bm - x20230
A - x02230


Verse 1:
D

Bright blue hydrangeas
G         D
Lost in the weeds
                     G
Bus stops and barbed wire on the way to stare
                    Em
At the heart of the earth from the Poas peak
                     G    Em
Just like the ones that we grew back in Jersey
                   G
Hung upside down, drying out for the wedding


Verse 2:
D                        G
There's a man with his head in his hands on the sidewalk
D                      G
His wife's there behind him just off of the street
D                     G    D
She scratches his back as he sobs on the asphalt
                 G
And what strikes me most is the symmetry
               Em
How they're framed just like you and me
                  G
When the light from the hospital's eastern wing
    Em                        G
Tangles up in your hair and the sadness it pooled in my heart
          G
Starts emptying slowly


Chorus:
  D C#m Bm    A     G
Well I saw you last night in my dream
        D  C#m Bm  A        G   D
And there were hydrangeas where your face should be


Verse 3:
                    G      D
The redwoods feel lonely and lunar and distant
                         G   D
The sun comes in fragments through breaks in the trees
                      G
And I feel further from home than I've ever been
                          G
These thin lines of light across space tether you to me
         Em                 G
They pull in my memories, back to our apartment on 2nd Street
     Em                            G
Through the South-facing window the light catches lengths of your hair

Like a path that you left me


Chorus:
   D C#m Bm   A      G
Well I saw you last night in my dream
        D C#m  Bm    A     G
But there were azaleas where your face should be


Bridge:
      D/F#      Em
Pieces of us in the morning sun
            G
Sleeping bags under the 101
    D/F#    Em
She takes off his glasses and she falls asleep again
                     G
They don't got much but goddamn they got love


Chorus:
  D C#m Bm    A      G   G
Well I saw you last night in my dream
     D  C#m  Bm      A          G
I'm gonna marry you underneath driftwood from Crescent City


Outro:
D C#m Bm A G
D A Bm A G
D C#m Bm A G
D A Bm A G (hold)